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Post #299964

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Puggo - Jar Jar's Yoda
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Would you give up ESB in exchange for...?
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Date created
25-Oct-2007, 9:50 PM
I voted "no", because I think all movies should be preserved, whether the brilliant "Star Wars" (which has not been preserved), or the crappy prequels (which, knowing GL, are doomed to the same fate), or "Plan 9 From Outer Space". So I can't in good conscience vote to preserve one, while voting to destroy the others. Destroying films is what we are decrying GL for doing.

Having said that, I think that anyone who sits down as a blank slate, assessing the 6 movies, as movies, would have to conclude that Star Wars, in its original form, rates an unqualified A+, while ESB ranks about a B (already by ESB things were starting to get a little contrived). Then it drops off fast, with ROTJ about a C and the prequels all garnering F-minuses. That's not to say they aren't all fun - even the prequels are great eye candy. But as classic movies, let's be honest here... as utterly brilliant as "Star Wars" was (and it is my favorite movie of all time), the whole "saga" is a laughable catastrophe which started out "iffy" with ESB and has only gotten worse and worse with each additional episode. The walkers were cool, though